The Connection

Who can trace the connection between the corporate employee's labor and the ten frustrating years Biro put in developing the first leaky ball-point pen, the descendant of which the worker carries in his shirt pocket? Or Thomas Edison's 15,000 failed attempts to find a suitable conducting material for his lightbulb idea? Or the bodies of coolie laborers buried by the railroad tracks they laid or the power poles they erected to carry electricity across the continent? Or the unknown labor and inspiration that went into the making of glass; or the lives and deaths that went into the integration of the concept of "zero" or the smelting of copper, or the Wright brothers who went some distance from the ridicule to test out their union of box kite, bicycle, and gas engine-- and the Mack trucks or trains that carried the corporate worker's lunch to the store for her?

Can the corporate employee claim that her labor, including overtime, "earned" these things?

The employee's wage is a convention that has nothing to do with the great industrial technical system that has come about-- it is something she can never "pay for".

What is this huge super-powerful set of robots for? Improve the question: What might they be for?

One thing it is quite capable of doing is feeding, clothing and sheltering everyone on earth handsomely and cleanly. Its maintenance would take very little contribution from each person if we decided that this was its purpose.

But in "reality" it seems, rather than bringing its super power to serve humanity, humanity must serve it!